Basic Training and Education in Biofeedback
This course provides you with a basic skill set to conduct simple biofeedback interventions, along with knowledge about biofeedback concepts and approaches and a familiarity with research-based applications of biofeedback to common medical and behavioral disorders. The Saybrook biofeedback training sequence covers the Blueprint of Knowledge adopted by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance to guide training of biofeedback professionals (BCIA, 2006).
Psychophysiological Recording, Assessment, and Interventions
This course dives further into psychophysiology and its techniques so you will know the psychophysiological basis for performing recordings, what the common assessments and interventions are as well as how they work, what the common associated interventions are, how the recording devices work in a variety of settings, how to perform an effective recording, and how to perform effective psychophysiological assessments and interventions.
Choice of either:
Advanced Biofeedback
This course includes online contact with faculty and fellow students, directed readings and research in specialty areas, as well as applied practice of biofeedback and/or neurofeedback with regular group-based supervision.
Heart Rater Variability Biofeedback
This course meets the requirements for the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance Certificate of Completion in heart rate variability (HRV). The course emphasizes methods for evaluation and training of autonomic nervous system quieting through heart rate variability biofeedback training. HRV biofeedback has been demonstrated by extensive research to provide therapeutic benefits for a growing number of medical and mental health disorders.
